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Flashcards by 2007hallam, updated more than 1 year ago
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| The Bloody Chamber - "When I saw him look at me with lust, I dropped my eyes but, in glancing away from him, I caught sight of myself in the mirror. And I saw myself, suddenly, as he saw me. And, for the first time in my innocent and confined life, I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away." "I saw him watching me in the gilded mirrors with the assessing eye of a connoisseur inspecting horseflesh" "watched a dozen husbands approach me in a dozen mirrors" | The complicity in her own destruction. She is able to see how she is being objectified and how she almost embraces it. Both she and the lillies are reflected multiple times in the mirrors, again drawing parallels to her and the fragility of the flowers |
| The Tiger's Bride - "This clockwork twin of mine [...] thrusts towards me her little mirror. I saw within it not my own face but that of my father, as if I had put on his face when I arrived at The Beast's palace as the discharge of his debt. What, you self-deluding fool, are you crying still? And drunk, too. He tossed back his grappa and hurled the tumbler away." | She bears the mark of being her father's property by actually wearing his face. Later, the mirror makes the heroine have another realization. She sees her father rejoicing at having his wealth returned and realizes that wealth means nothing to her. Only then can she undress of her own accord and transform into a tigress. |
| Wolf-Alice - "Her relation with the mirror was now far more intimate since she knew she saw herself within it" "The lucidity of the moonlight lit the mirror propped against the red wall; the rational glass, the master of the visible, impartially recorded the crooning girl" | The mirror, so much a silent witness that it is nearly a character, is the object that catalyzes Wolf-Alice's transformation into a human. We know that she is still an animal when she thinks her reflection is another creature. When she realizes that the reflection is her own, that she is capable of casting a reflection, she begins to understand that she is separate from and has power over her surroundings |
| The Courtship of Mr Lyon - "You could not have said that her freshness was fading but she smiled at herself in mirrors a little too often, these days" "Her trance before the mirror broke; all at once, she remembered everything perfectly" | Rather than being the 'rational glass', the mirror allows Beauty to become blinded by her own vanity - her human nature is blinding her. |
| The Lady of the House of Love - "The cracked mirror does not reflect a presence" | Similarly to the Count in Wolf-Alice, she is an irrational creature and so has no reflection in the 'rational glass'. Her virginity and immortality both could be her as irrational. Denying her natural instincts (animalism) by becoming supernatural. |
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